Get your submissions in to Gautam Ghosh as soon as possible for this week’s fabulous carnival. Send them to gautam dot ghosh at gmail dot com.The June 27th Carnival will be hosted by Kris Dunn at The HR Capitalist. The July 11th Carnival will be hosted by Lisa
You mean the problem isn’t just with crazy executives and there might be some problem with regular employees? I’m shocked. Stanely Bing, who wrote Crazy Bosses, wrote this article on crazy employees. Because we are nuts, you know, we who work for those who go insane above us.
The New York Times published an article on being chronically late–on Sunday. It’s now Friday and I’m getting around to blogging about it. Hmmmm… Anyway, they say those who are chronically late don’t do so to control or offend, they just are late–for everything. If you are one
This was sent out by one of our sales reps to his entire sales team, to his boss, his boss’ boss, and a member of my staff. How’s that for totally inappropriate for the work place. My favorite lines: “The beach itself is really nice, and the night-life
My husbands boss physically and verbally attacked him on Saturday because he was unable to work on Saturday, but requested his check for the weeks work. At that point he had already worked 62 hours from Monday – Friday, which he only receives his straight pay for all
Just a friendly reminder to submit your carnival entries to gautam dot ghosh at gmail dot com. Next Wednesday the Carnival will be posted over at Gautam’s place.
Dear Evil HR Lady, I’m a recent graduate of an MBA program. I was recently interviewed by a firm after spending 3 weeks getting documentation from companies I had worked with in the past. I was told the documentation was required just to start the interview process. This
Would you believe that the California Government did something not right? They offered a bonus for early completion on repair of the collapsed bridge in Oakland. The result? Bridge repair complete in 17 days. It takes longer than that for pot holes to be filled around here. Here’s
You know what your name is. I realize that. Your friends recognize your voice when you call them. However, when you are an employee, or former employee, and you call some HR lady (an Evil one at at that) with a question and you get her voicemail, don’t
